Race Day Prep

From prepping for a busy race day to making sure your body is properly fueled all day long, driver Aric Amirola and sports analyst Marty Smith want to help you ignite your energy and keep it aflame all day.

Aric Almirola is an American professional stock car racing driver. Stewart-Haas Racing signed Almirola to join its Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series lineup in 2018. The 33-year-old from Tampa, Florida, will drive the team’s No. 10 Smithfield Ford Fusion. Almirola scored the organization’s first victory in the famed No. 43 since 1999 when he won the July 2014 race at Daytona International Speedway. He also won a pole and earned 11 top-five and 31 top-10 finishes.  He is nicknamed “The Cuban Missile” due to his Cuban heritage.

Marty Smith is one of sport’s most popular and recognized reporters and hosts who currently covers a variety of sports including college football, basketball, both the NFL and NBA, NASCAR and others. Smith’s features and reporting are often seen on various platforms including SportsCenter and ESPN.com. Smith launched his own show Marty Smith’s America in August 2017 on ESPN2.  Smith was a senior writer for NASCAR.com, an analyst and host on the former SPEED Channel and a NASCAR analyst on Fox Sports Net. A Radford University graduate, Smith covered sports for daily newspapers in Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va., before joining NASCAR.com

Aric and Marty will also share how they get “fueled by bacon” and how viewers can enter for the chance to win free bacon for life courtesy of Smithfield.